Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, November 20, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Greg Duncan, “How Much Does Poverty Early in Life Harm Children’s Development?”
Duncan is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He has a long association with the foundation and has returned many times in various positions. Duncan was a visiting scholar at RSF during the 2016-2017 academic year and is co-editor of the RSF books Whither Opportunity?, For Better and for Worse, Neighborhood Poverty Volume 1 and Volume 2, Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-author of the RSF book Higher Ground, and the recipient of multiple grants from the foundation.
Duncan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan and a BA from Grinnell College. He has appointments at both the School of Education, Department of Economics (by courtesy) and Psychology and Social Behavior (by courtesy) at the University of California at Irvine, where he has been since 2008. He also held an adjunct professorship at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social policy from 2008-2013. Duncan spent the first 25 years of his career at the University of Michigan working on and ultimately directing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data collection project. Since 1968, the PSID has collected economic, demographic, health, behavior and attainment data from a representative sample of U.S. individuals and the households in which they reside. With these and other data he has studied the economic mobility of the U.S. population, both within and across generations, particularly focusing on low-income families. Duncan was the 2013 winner of the Jacobs Research Prize for his research on the long-term effects of childhood poverty, a hard-earned outcome of the PSID data collection project. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Duncan was among the top 1% of authors cited in Education as of 2022, with over 15,000 cites in peer-reviewed articles.